Sentences with phrase «injuries to key players in»

People do seem to forget that we have injuries to key players in Sanchez, Le Coq and Santi and and and... and despite that we have coped very well and maintained our title charge.

Big Sam has changed the formation to three at the back and he intends to stick with it, but he also has injuries to key players in his side.

Injuries to key players in midfield has stifled Arsenal's good run this season.

No matter how confident our players are this season, any bad moment such as being cocky, selfish, over confidence, slip up, complacency or an injury to a key player in a key position where there are no key back ups will break that confidence...... CONFIDENCE IS LIKE A PACK OF CARDS

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All Arsenal fans are up in arms about the Gunners dropping two points at Norwich yesterday, and even worse we have sustained three more injuries to key players that we can ill afford to do without right now.

I think it's fair to say that Wenger was lucky to have such a young talent as Joel in his rank when he has had injuries to key players like Alexis and Theo, rather than it being good news for Joel.

Our current fitness coach and his assistant have stayed the same since 2001, and a slight shake - up could well be needed, especially with our title credentials having been dented year - in year - out due to injuries to key players.

The Gunners have been plagued by injuries to a number of key players already this season and with Chamberlain continuing to struggle to fully establish himself in the side this will come as another setback in his short career.

We have either started well or finished well in previous seasons and as always the injuries to key players have played a big part in our failure to win the premier league.

I think put the starters in to work out the team chemistry but resting as much as possible and preventing any more injuries to key players.

With 23 points in 22 games, the Panthers weren't doing that bad — especially considering the injuries to some key players.

-- If we can stay off injuries to key players — Maintain our compactness and our found solidity in defense — Having a good golie has Oooospina has so far shown — No complacency in games — Keep bagging in those goals (goals wins games)-- Get rid of some ageing / underperforming players in the summer — Recruiting a few more for an even improved squad, and — Continuous improvement to our academy

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

Typically these periods in past few seasons has seen us chasing the top table team with average of 10 points, then comes our end of season charge which has seen us having more points than any other epl team in the final two months of the season over the past few years as well.This is mostly due to injuries plaguing key members our team around this period every year, apparently we've gone through our rough mid season patch again or might still be going through seeing as we have list some key players like carzola, bellerin to injuries again.

Others could point to injuries — key players like Arjen Robben, Franck Ribery and David Alaba sat out the game in midweek, while other members of the squad were not fully fit after only recently returning.

They play the Oakland Raiders in Philly and not only are the Raiders traveling across the country they are also dealing with injuries to key offensive players.

The Arsenal boss will still, I am sure, be on the lookout for any late deals and he may have to leap into action if any of our key players picks up a bad injury in pre-season or the three Premier League games due to be played before the window slams shut.

Wish he recruits adequate «bench strength «to overcome a strenuous and tiring EPL and CL campaign at least in Summer 2016 so that his EPL Campaign does not fizzle out mid way thru the EPL through injuries to his key players..!!..

lets not cry over Rosicky he wouldnt be in starting 11 anyway firstly lets hope we do nt face more injuries to key players secondly i think AW should realize that Ramsey is a better goal scorer that Walcot and Campbel and physically stronger.

Currently the team can make it into top 3 without injuries to key players and consistency in form (ai nt sure which position exactly though.

But for sure underinvestment doesn't deliver especially if u want to compete on two big fronts... Bellerin is the first of our young players to come through in quite some time lots of expectation in last 6 years but can't think of a real quality player from the academy... Wilshere might if injuries hadn't prevented... Spurs now looking better on that front Attitude is key I agree totally... love the way Leicester hunt down ball in packs and break with 3 or even 4 players moving at speed...

Bad luck is one thing but Injuries in key positions to key players is what will cost us this season as far as a title challenge is concerned because it exposes us for the lack of depth in the squad.

The 30 - year - old scored four goals before a knee injury hampered his progress, playing a key role in Mourinho's side despite largely being a utility player prior to that in his Old Trafford career.

We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts, playing 2 tough games every week without any respite — whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.

When we are only 2 injuries to key players away from being in the sh*t as per usual.

Our key players like Fabregas and van Persie were too injury prone and that, in one way or the other, caused our success to be minimal.

I hope he proves me wrong and gives everton a nightmare of a game but i'm excited about seeing Campbell coming in as a sub soon because of injury to one of our key players.

At the end of the season, Peter Cech cited long term injuries to key players over the crucial run - in period as the main reason that we failed to win the league.

«You look at the A's [with all the injuries they've had to key players] and it's amazing that they're right in the race,» says Toronto manager Cito Gaston.

it will be a tall task to win this season almost every team in the EPL has strengthened their squad, its all down to experience and key players injuries will be the decider, we have to treat every game like a cup final this season and even then it will be difficult, but how exiting the EPL has become top players and top managers.

Bearing in mind that because of the injury list a lot of the Arsenal first team have had very little rest and we have just had that busy festive schedule I think it is important for some key players to be rested until the Liverpool game next week, so assuming that Alexis Sanchez is fit and available, this would be my starting XI.

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Any team in the PL with our number of injuries to key players would suffer a drop in performance.

However, Arsenal have a deeper and stronger squad than the visitors to the Emirates tonight to start with, and in two o0f their absentees through injury they are without two of their key players.

While some will point to bad luck, as it is those pesky away goals that look like costing us top spot in Europe to PSG, and some will point to the injury problems keeping key players like Cazorla and Bellerin out of the team, our former striker Alan Smith has another theory.

In an interview with BBC Sport, as seen in the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting iIn an interview with BBC Sport, as seen in the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting iin the tweet below, Pogba suggested that he hoped some key Man City players picked up injuries to give United a better chance of catching them in the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting iin the Premier League title race, although you can tell he was hesitant in admitting iin admitting it.

Let's be realistic Gooners, a point away to Chelsea is always a decent result and with them in great form while we have not hit top form yet, combined with the fact that we are missing some key players through injury, a point tomorrow would be an even better result than usual.

So on the eve of the first leg against Bayern in Germany, Arsenal were handed the boost, reported by Metro, that the Bundesliga side had been hit with an injury to one of their key players Xabi Alonso.

Sanchez can play as a winger; but, when you are hampered by injuries to key players, it wouldn't be wrong to play the Chilean up top, while Sanogo plays in the cup games and builds confidence on his own self, more than anything else.

The guy is currently not a key player for us but he's got the required quality to be a 2nd or 3rd option just in case.We have to be smart in allowing him to go or not.Honestly speaking Arsenal's injury situation is more of a curse.He should be sent on loan next season to a spanish team.He needs to go to a league which is not so physical.I believe he can excel over there.However, I still believe that Jack can be one of Arsenal's best players in the future.Allowing him to go is still a wrong choice.We need to loan him to a spanish team.

Arsenal had bounced back well from a slow start, though, and were starting to look really good until a number of key players joined the injury list and that saw us suffer through a nightmare November in which we failed to win a league game.

We have seen it before, though, and there are some key players in that City side like Aguero and De Bruyne who would be hard to replace if they pick up an injury.

Chelsea could really struggle in the Premier League if they suffer more injuries to key players.

Texas faces a brutal non-conference schedule — Book»em Horns — doesn't have a quarterback and has five key players hoping to recover from injury in time to play.

The French football pundit feels that they have not been able to cope with the loss of key players to injury in the same way that Arsenal have.

Recent injuries have plagued the Arsenal squad and in addition to these key players being on the mend, Arsenal has also lost Cazorla long term to a Plantaris Injury.

Having to bring in a free after the window has closed to reinforce a position where you know one of you key players has an ongoing injury sounds a little dangerous to me.

In all honesty, long - term injuries to key players have had a lot to do with Arsenal's mediocre first half of the campaign.

We've been lucky to have done this well in the defensive department considering our injuries to key players, and no disrespect to the young guns that have come in to fill the void (I think they've done remarkably well) but they won't be enough to carry us through the season.

In that season, he played everywhere because of injuries to key players and he also got injured himself.